The Summing UpAutobiographical and confessional, and yet not, this is one of the most highly regarded expressions of a personal credo - both a classic avowal of an author's ideas and his craft. |
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Page 10
No one can tell the whole truth about himself . It is not only vanity that has
prevented those who have tried to reveal themselves to the world from telling the
whole truth ; it is direction of interest ; their disappointment with themselves , their
...
No one can tell the whole truth about himself . It is not only vanity that has
prevented those who have tried to reveal themselves to the world from telling the
whole truth ; it is direction of interest ; their disappointment with themselves , their
...
Page 175
But just as the painter will not get commissions unless on the whole he satisfies
his patrons , so the writer's books will not be read unless on the whole they
interest his readers . Yet there is in writers a feeling that the public ought to like
what ...
But just as the painter will not get commissions unless on the whole he satisfies
his patrons , so the writer's books will not be read unless on the whole they
interest his readers . Yet there is in writers a feeling that the public ought to like
what ...
Page 262
In their sheltered , easy lives it looks as though this were the only pain that had
much afflicted them and one might almost conclude that with the improvement of
American dentistry the whole problem could be conveniently shelved .
In their sheltered , easy lives it looks as though this were the only pain that had
much afflicted them and one might almost conclude that with the improvement of
American dentistry the whole problem could be conveniently shelved .
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Bibliographic information
| Title | The Summing Up Volume 10 of Collected edition of the works of W. Somerset Maugham W. Somerset Maugham Works Works, William Somerset Maugham |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Arno Press, 1977 |
| Original from | The Ohio State University |
| Digitized | 18 May 2018 |
| ISBN | 0405078307, 9780405078309 |
| Length | 310 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / Literary |
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